Keeping Lone Workers Safe: Information Sharing
In this rough-cut video clip from a recent Lone Worker Personal Safety Training programme, our Director of Training and Keeping Lone Workers Safe expert trainer Gerard O’Dea discusses one important case where a lone worker was seriously attacked by a person who...
Punch Drunk Restraint Training Design
One of the key questions we have asked our colleagues in the field of training, as we have visited with them to share our approach is: “What stimulus are you preparing your staff to respond to?” The question is somewhat oblique, but it focusses on the heart of the...Stabbed Social Worker won the right to sue for breach of Duty of Care
A social worker who was stabbed by a mental patient who had earlier threatened to ‘kill her on the spot’ won the right to sue two NHS trusts after the Court of Appeal ruled it was arguable that they owed her a common law duty of care. The patient had issued the...